junkyardjeff

Tail lights are on so its done,will get hubcaps later

I have to do a cam and intake change on one of my old cars before it comes out in the spring,I heat the garage with kerosene and do not like smelling it any more so now its time to get working on it.

Now that its getting warmer its time to work on the cars in the garage and do some work in the yard,I am going to try to finish the restoration of the MPC 77ish Chevy stepside before I quit for the year and will keep the 36 ford roadster for when it rains and I am bored but doubt it will get finished before it gets cold again. I do most of the building while I am stuck inside for the winter and ready to go outside.

The tail lights arrived this weekend and will be on this week,it will probably stay without hubcaps for awhile since I do not want to buy a kit to get them and will wait until I can get some from Modelhaus.

I went as far as I can go until I find tail lights and hubcaps

The first picture answered my question,it looks like no one noticed the parking lights in the panel under the grille when they appeared in the grille or did not care to change the tooling.

I have the Warlock and LRE versions and noticed that the panel below the grille has parking lights and the grilles also have the parking lights,I have built the longbed 4x4 versions but since it was many years can not remember if they had the parking lights in the grille also. I think that body style came out in 72 and really do not know much about them so trying to figure out when the beginning of those kits were and just what year is the LRE and Warlock supposed to be.

I think I might have some fun with it if I ever get around to it.

I have one of their Rolls Royce that is built and heard its kind of rare and was thinking about modifying it but if it could be worth something I will not do it.

Its in color and the steps for the bed are getting the chrome stripped,will get the rims painted tomorrow.

Just got done using a rattle can on the Dodge truck.

I build in my basement which is damp most of the times so I paint outside most of the time but during the winter I paint at work,I forgot to take the Dodge truck to work so I tried it at home using a heat gun and turned out well. Warmed it up then shot the paint then heated it back up and did not get the usual flat look when there is too much moisture in the air.

I did not know that could happen.

It is in color,I found some dark green metallic paint at the parts store that is close enough to a late 70s color and will post pics later.

Do not have the room for those.

If I remember correctly Edsel died in 43 or 44 so the second headlight and grille had to been done between 40 and his death or after it was sold.

I was wondering if the present grille and headlights had been changed since sealed beam headlights did not come out until 1940.

I built models for many years before hearing about Modelhaus and probably can live without them but their parts have spoiled me,I do not know how long they have been doing it but I first started ordering parts off them about 4 years ago and was hoping it would go on for many more years. If it was still in the less then 2 dollars for a kit days I would have no problem buying new kits for parts but now that its over 20 dollars I can not do it so the Modelhaus was a big help.

I was on their site a couple weeks ago and should have ordered then,got lucky and found parts I needed in stock to finish a couple projects but if I do not like the wheels that came with the kits I have in waiting I will be screwed unless I want to buy another kit to get the parts.

They are down to 4.99 now

I am from the east Dayton area.

I am going to make a order that will last me for years when I can order again.

When they catch up I think I am going to make a order that will last me a few years,I think they opened up a can of worms by mentioning their retirement and might be hard to catch up with all the orders.

The price has been reduced to 5 dollars now so I grabbed another one.

All the metal axles I have are too short so where can I get it in bulk to cut to fit.